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6 responses to “More Australian Linguistic Weirdness”

1. December 19, 2003

   kristen

   eww. did not know that. ‘fairy floss’ is my favourite australian slightly-strange food name.
2. December 19, 2003

   Claire

   Really? What is fairy floss called elsewhere?? 🙂
3. December 20, 2003

   Moire

   Hee!! I still like “beverage whitener.”
4. December 20, 2003

   kristen

   claire – in the uk, fairy floss is candy floss, and in the us, it is cotton candy. (i think it’s that way round, anyway).
5. December 20, 2003

   robert

   in ireland an icecream that you buy from a van is called a poke. i burst out laughing the first time i heard a girl say to her boyfriend at one of those vans “billy, do you wanna poke?”
6. December 20, 2003

   Kris

   Ha! That’d be a good trick to play on a tourist, Robert. Imagine them walking up to the ice cream man saying, “I’d like a poke, please.” 🙂